The composition around the main building of the museum is in a sense an astronomical system, where the main building is the “sun”, and others – “planets”. All of them connects by Rhizosphere on the ground and by cisterns underground.

The cornerstone for the new storage vaults of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts was laid on September 9. The project – Rhizosphere – unifies and protects the museum grounds while opening their perimeter. Eventually over 700,000 objects will move into the new open storage, where many of them will be visible to visitors.

For their final projects at the Moscow Architectural Institute, our studio students proposed research strategies aimed at creating a new and open Moscow.

Their conceptual tools included preservation, shrinkage, and temporary building, multiplicities of use, to planned ruins and the reanimation of public space. This variety was aligned to the need for new visions of the city and an open relationship with its citizens.

ZIL: construction begins

The recovery has begun. Soon enough, 50,000 new residents will animate the former ZIL industrial site, a uniquely sited opportunity for a project in Moscow to give priority to public interests and set a new standard for urban development. Networked public spaces, parks, and infrastructure for new creative endeavours will restore the peninsula to a site of energetic production. Phase 1 is now under construction.

Yury Grigoryan, Iliya Kuleshov and Elena Uglovskaya welome Artem Staborovsky as partner. Since 2010, Staborovsky has led projects including the competition for the Parliament Centre in 2015, the “Sugar blocks” residences in 2014, and the Kursovoy Pereulok apartments in 2013. Currently he leads the masterplan for Gorky Park, and he also teaches at Moscow Architectural Institute since 2014

The design for Praktika theatre’s premiere of “Black & Simpson” conceives the set as a third actor: a tool for dialogue that the actors cannot possibly ignore.

Moscow River Future Ports

competition, — urbanism

Meganom’s project for a network of “ports” to green and integrate the center of Moscow with the periphery has been selected as the winner of the international competition to redevelop the Moscow riverbanks. The proposal was developed with Gillespies, Strategy Partners Group, John Thomson and Partners, Systematica, and Cushman and Wakefield.

Elena Uglovskaya named partner

Yuriy Grigoryan and Iliya Kuleshov welcome Elena Uglovskaya as a partner. Uglovskaya joined Meganom immediately after graduation from MARCHI in 2008. She has led many successful competitions including the Pushkin Museum extension in 2014, and redevelopment of ZIL in 2014. She also contributed to exhibitions such as “Archaeology of Periphery” for the Moscow Urban Forum in 2013.

A residential complex on the site of a former rubber factory in Khamovniki’s Garden Quarter set among objects by Sergei Skuratov and "Art-Blya," the towers’ plasticity and restrained aesthetics extend the tradition of expressive industrial building.

Meganom offices have moved from the Museum of Architecture to the former Red October factory. The first office was found by chance and its spaces fostered an atmosphere of openness and conviviality. Now the neighbours are leading contemporaries like Strelka Institute, Digital October, and Snob Media.

Yury Palmin documented the change in his project "Two spaces.”

Public science

competition, february 2013

A centre for the Polytechnic Museum and Moscow State University introduces a new kind of public space into the city. Like a living room of research, the Museum and Education Centre wraps around a square, stopping on different “knowledge platforms” that can support more specialized functions, or simply focused presentations of investigations from around the world. At the end is an overlook; a panorama of the university and the city.

The project for the ZIL factory site in Moscow inserts the complex into three new ecosystems: a peninsula at the intersection of two rivers, a diverse habitat for developers at different scales, and new frameworks for green transportation and public space. The former industrial area becomes more appropriate for daily life, and acts as an incubator for new ecosystems for the city.

Meganom’s students at MARCHI have dedicated their final projects to an analysis of Moscow inside the first ring road, the defence ring of the former Soviet capital. Ninety percent of this city was built in the last fifty years, and this monument to socialist city planning has a centripetal structure that seems hopelessly obsolete today.

The film “Target” premiered at the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival, directed by Alexander Zeldovich with a script in collaboration with Vladimir Sorokin, and architectural designs by Alexandra Pavlova.

The publication dedicated to the renowned Soviet avant-garde architect Leonid Pavlov. The book brings together biographical notice, descriptions of his 20 projects with detailed illustrations of competition entries, study drawings and plans, an anthology of his manuscripts. It is released in Russian and in English

Moscow river: clean, accessible and vibrant

october 17, 2015

— news

This year's MUF is focused around the Moscow River. Project Meganom demonstrates its strategy for the development of the river’s embankments, its adjacent territories, and 40 new ports created as centers for public space activity

Together with Off-The-Grid studio Meganom has entered the shortlist of the international contest for the transformation of the Qatar Flour Mills site, alongside David Chipperfield and Renzo Piano. The finalist of the contest will work on adapting and extending the existing grain silos to create 'one of the world's leading art galleries'.